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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. -- Nancy Pearcey
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. -- Jonathan Lethem
A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice. -- Edward Einhorn
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature. -- Jim Harrison
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. -- Bill Hicks
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. -- Virginia Woolf
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. -- Caroline Kennedy
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. -- Laura Marling
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema. -- Julia Leigh
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word. -- Ashwin Sanghi
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. -- Anatole Broyard
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope. -- Caroline Leavitt
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural. -- Colin Hanks
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales. -- David Small
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. -- Jim Jarmusch
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits. -- Paul Di Filippo
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets. -- Thomas Steinbeck
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens. -- Dylan Moran
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself. -- A. S. Byatt
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much. -- Vladimir Putin
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. -- Nick Clegg
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music. -- Tom Glazer
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. -- James Buchan
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. -- Ray Bradbury
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andre Maurois
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. -- Gretchen Rubin
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. -- Doris Lessing
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. -- Vivian Gornick
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. -- Rita Mae Brown
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. -- Howard Nemerov
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. -- Stephen Stills
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. -- Dorothy Parker
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. -- Ernest Hemingway
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. -- Natalie Goldberg
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. -- Henry Miller
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. -- Henry Miller
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! -- John Wain
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit. -- Aldous Huxley
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. -- Doris Lessing
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. -- Roman Payne
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death. -- Janet Burroway
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature. -- Audre Lorde
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities. -- Gregory Allen Howard
You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar. -- Nenia Campbell
I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it. -- Jamaica Kincaid
To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement. -- Gail Carriger
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise. -- Felicity Jones

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